MTA installs spikes at NYC subway station to deter fare evaders but straphangers skeptical it will work: ‘Waste of money’
The Metropolitan Transit Authority has rolled out its latest effort to combat fare evasion — this time installing spikes on ...
4-foot tall steel fences to be installed at 100 subway stations to protect riders
Of the 40 people killed by trains during the first four months of 2022, one was shoved onto the tracks, according to an MTA ...
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MTA tries out spikey new additions to subway turnstiles. But do they work?
New Yorkers taking the subway may soon see spikey new additions to the turnstile gates. The MTA said newly installed sharp metal barriers are meant to deter turnstile jumpers. The installation is ...
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MTA’s latest ‘solution’ to $800M fare evasion scourge turns into train wreck as flood of NYC subway riders vault over turnstile spikes
A flood of turnstile jumpers skipped the fare at a Manhattan subway station Friday — despite newly installed spikes the MTA apparently hopes ... 4, 5 and 6 lines — less than 36 hours after ...
Leg.’s MTA plan veto risks crucial IBX
Imagine this: you’re in Bay Ridge, waiting for a train to go to your new job in Jackson Heights. You hop on, riding east into ...
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MTA employee victim of 3rd NYC subway stabbing in roughly 24 hours
NEW YORK - An MTA employee was stabbed in a subway station in the Bronx Thursday ... man at the Pelham Parkway 5 train station at around 6:30 a.m. The cleaner was stabbed twice and was rushed ...
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Suspected stabber of Bronx MTA worker linked to Manhattan subway stabbing
The transit worker’s alleged stabber ... a 47-year-old off-duty station cleaner at the Pelham Parkway subway station around 6 a.m., according to police. As in the earlier incident, Banks ...